With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and AT&T, ACM CoNEXT 2009 will provide a limited number of grants to students to attend the main conference as well as to participate in the ACM CoNEXT 2009 Student Workshop.

The Sigcomm Test-of-time award recognizes papers published 10 to 12years in the past in Computer Communication Review or any SIGCOMMsponsored or co-sponsored conference that is deemed to be anoutstanding paper whose contents are still a vibrant and usefulcontribution today. This year's test-of-time awardee is the papertitled: "A digital fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulkdata", by John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, AshutoshRege, which appeared in SIGCOMM 1998.

Slides from the Community Feedback Session in Barcelona have been posted

The Community Feedback Session (formerly known as the SIGCOMM business meeting) was held at the annual conference in Barcelona on August 18, 2009. The slides from the session are now available on line here, and a short summary of the meeting will be posted soon.